Talk:Benjamin Peirce

Latest comment: 7 years ago by 137.250.27.6 in topic Peirce-decomposition

Did he have a son of the same name? edit

This Benjamin Peirce is too early to be the author of A Short Table of Integrals by Benjamin Osgood Peirce, "Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Harvard University" (also at Harvard note) - so surely that was his son? http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9A03EEDD1730E733A25756C1A9679C946596D6CF&oref=slogin So is H. H. D. the daughter and Benjamin Osgood Peirce II the unnamed son? --catslash (talk) 17:11, 15 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

B.O. Peirce is from a different progeny, as was G. W. Pierce, also a Harvard scientist. B.O. Peirce was not a quaternion enthusiast, as were James Mill Peirce and his father Benjamin.Rgdboer (talk) 21:29, 15 June 2008 (UTC)Reply
Thanks, it's clear now; they were second cousins once removed (i.e. Benjamin's great-grandfather Jerathmiel was Benjamin Osgood's great-great-grandfather), and the four of them (Benjamin, Benjamin, Benjamin Osgood 2nd and James Mill) were all at Harvard (according to http://books.nap.edu/html/biomems/bpeirce.pdf). I can't understand now why I didn't guess that. Thanks again for the swift reply --catslash (talk) 22:16, 15 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

External links modified edit

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Benjamin Peirce. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{Sourcecheck}}).

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

  • If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
  • If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 01:53, 31 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

Can someone confirm, that the Peirce-decomposition of rings was introduced by Benjamin Peirce and not by Benjamin Osgood Peirce?

Peirce-decomposition edit

Can someone confirm, that the Peirce-decomposition of rings was introduced by Benjamin Peirce and not by Benjamin Osgood Peirce? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.250.27.6 (talk) 17:41, 17 January 2017 (UTC)Reply